Did we learn nothing from the tragedy of Charla Nash, the woman violently attacked earlier this year by a friend's pet chimp? While these two incidents are different in terms of the size of the animal involved or the severity of the injuries sustained, they both underscore a good point: primates are not meant to be pets. A 10-month old LaPorte, Indiana girl suffered some minor injuries when a pet monkey grabbed the girl's head and banged it against its cage several times. Per ABC 7:

A woman who slips into the new Galaxy Dress will literally ‘light up the room’ thanks to a new prototype gown created by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz of the London-based company CuteCircuit. The dress is embroidered with 24,000 full-color LEDs, and according to the Museum of Science and Industry, is the largest wearable LED display in the world. The design duo used flat, paper-like LEDs which were hand-embroidered onto four layers of silk chiffon to diffuse the light and give the dress a fluid, iridescent glow.

In what has become a site tradition, the staff at Chicagoist have shared some of our favorite family recipes for readers at Thanksgiving. This year we decided to do something a little different. We reached out to some of our favorite local chefs to come up with side dishes that best complement the Thanksgiving turkey. How you may want to prepare the bird Thursday is up to you. We're hellbent on cooking the turkey sous vide, after watching the Grant Achatz/Nick Kokonas video from last year and this one with PolyScience's Phillip Preston and Erick Williams of MK. These side dishes our chefs have sent us should complement any Thanksgiving table.

E2 owners Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins were due to be sentenced this morning for their part in the February 2003 stampede that killed 21 people. While Kyles and Hollins have since both been cleared of involuntary manslaughter charges - making this charge the only criminal charge they'll be sentenced for - the [air were found guilty of contempt in housing court in September of this year for refusing to close the club after receiving four notices to do so. We'll update as soon as we hear. [Tribune]

Ever since we started spending more time in Roscoe Village, we've been completely addicted to Scooter's Frozen Custard. Three times a week addicted. If we had a nickel for every time that we've run screaming out of the house at 9:45 to get some tasty goodness just before closing... we'd have about $2. Their plain vanilla custard is ambrosial, and they offer Sprecher Root Beer for root beer floats.

Things keep getting worse on this current road trip for the Bulls as they lost their third straight game, this time 122-98 to the Portland Trailblazers. Not only do the losses keep coming (the Bulls are now 2-6 on the road this season), but the margin of those losses grows as well: 15 to the Lakers, then 19 to the Nuggets, and now 24 to the Trailblazers. The Bulls had a hard time stopping big men like Greg Oden, who scored 24 points and pulled down 12 rebounds in less than 27 minutes on the floor. For the Bulls, Luol Deng led the team with 25 points and John Salmons added 22, but Chicago was out-rebounded by a wide 47-27 margin, something Coach Vinny said was the difference in the game: "they outrebounded us by a lot, and that was the difference in the game - their control of the glass. We gave up way too many easy field goals underneath." The Bulls hope they can be thankful for an end to the losing streak when they visit Utah Thursday night (9:30 p.m., TNT/WGN).

At their meeting yesterday, their first since the death of board president Michael Scott, the Chicago Public Schools Board of Education moved forward with business, approving five new charter schools that will open across the next two school years. CPS had originally proposed six but withdrew one: the Chicago International Charter School.

Reports surfaced yesterday that Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen got a black eye after being punched Saturday night. Details are slowly trickling out and, if some of allegations are true, it leaves us shaking our head. It seems just hours after Notre Dame's loss to UConn in South Bend, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, Clausen was allegedly involved in an "altercation" outside CJ's Pub that resulted in Clausen receiving, according to a source to the Trib, "at least one black eye."

Is the City Council growing a spine? That may be the case, as the Finance Committee sent Mayor Daley's plan for property tax relief back to City Hall Monday for revisions. Facing a steep increase in property taxes this year, Mayor Daley (who claimed not to understand how property tax assessments work) has proposed a tax-relief plan - to the tune of $35 million - for homeowners that see their tax bills rise. According to the Tribune, Daley's plan breaks down like this:

Just what we needed during this travel heavy week: dense fog and rain. The fog that's spread throughout the area is already burning off and will clear up by around 10 a.m. and then we can turn our focus towards potential rain. There's a sixty percent chance of showers as the day moves on but that will increase as we move into the overnight hours. Highs today will probably hit around 50; tonight, with the rain, it'll drop to the mid 40s. And that's that, for the week. We'll see similar weather through Friday, expect mix in the chance of a few flakes with the raindrops, so travel safe everyone.

• Two people are dead and four were hurt in a fire this afternoon near suburban Bloomingdale.
• A week after his body was found in the Chicago River and a day after he was memorialized, the Chicago Board of Education met and honored Michael Scott.
• The Sun-Times has a profile of Joe Ferguson, the city's new Inspector General.

We don't know about you, but whenever we head out to the dollar store for some off-brand jerky, a 20 oz. Mountain Dew, and some expired baby aspirin, we often think, "Gee, some tabloid format news would be perfect right now," only to find out they didn't have any. So imagine our delight when it was announced that the Sun-Times is now available at 150 Dollar Tree and Dollar General stores across the Chicago area. The Sun-Times will also be selling its daily paper at 57 Walmart stores -- the discounter had previously only sold the Sunday edition.